hi.’KJJwsrK* i
VOLUME I.
ro mt dm a wiaarcct-
ova. e, wouaira
MT «*ar, Mend, low tying Own,
A wffltag vsanas at my feat,
JMU taMw < nutooms one t as*,
,
|1 task lafaryeer greet teesm ayan,
Whose tore and feral Souaga ahlea,
Aad vendor vtar* tea dMraraaaa Lea
Balaam I
For all at gnnfi ifisi t Bore Meed
Within myaatf or Soman kind
- Mteb «v»aUy telonad and monad
Tear fan tte baart and mind
0 tlMtln who late tad aartn arenes
rtalbtetew heart which, leal and traa.
Baare MaodatUp Wltboot and or boated,
dnS knd tea prim tn/4a.
| trust yon aa ItnuSttegtan;
Mor areal icon, nor rood at pride,
a. Mar beggary, nor Magana-ban,
Oan more yon from m j aide I
A. Sfty CTirietteai aaint ot old.
As tenth M a lamb with ma,
Bai rath jrtxu teothere bold.
Moro playful than a frolic boy,
Morejr refer.l than a ran Hart,
By day and tdghl your aonatant joy
To taterfl bad pteam mo vail
1 ateep yaaeten I apoa my hreert
Th. while yea whine and Uok my head -
, had than oar friendship la arwifuonak,
l^) r.u C '
Ak> wwahip Ood
** ma,
< WWBpy wtitin flgMpt—tor trod
SrtlDafort,
laaeo, diet ndm
rite a feveeeswa. t
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HJn airier's Htery.
engineer. Arway along
te recent panic, I was
. Hid 01 tailroa.l The
railroad ootnpanlM were going under in
all directions. Every day we beard of
new failures, and quite often in a qiuu
- -l» whies we Itmi expected it Oarread
wax upon to OBe of the
m<Jp«*MlitiaßM the nation , anbodr
seemed tohave any feans that it would
fail to survive the general smash-up; |
hut yet I did not fully share in iho'gnu
sral confidence. Wogee were cut down,
arrearages collected, and a great many
other little matters seemed to indicate to
'mt khat th? road had got into deeper
water than was agreeable all around.
Among other things, the master me
chanic had told me in the spring that
the company had ordered four first-qual
ity Taunton engines for the fall passen
ger business. The road was pat in the
very best condition, and other prepara
tions were made to ent down the time
and put the trains through quicker than
wae ever known liefore when the new
*agjkes should come. Well, there was
but one of the engines came.
I said that there was but one engine
name; but she was, in my opinion, alto
gether the best sver turned out of the
Taunton works, and that is saying as
much as can be said of any engine. She
was put in my charge immediately, with
#ie anderstanding that she was mine.
It was Saturday when she came out of
the shop, and I was to take a special
train up to Y The train was to
carry up the President and several offi
ces* of the road to meet some officers of
snoQief’ road, which crosses ours there,
and arrange some important business
with them. I had no trouble at all is
making my forty miles an hour going
out. The engine handled herself meet
beautifully. We were just holding up
at Y when Aldrich, the Treasurer,
who had ooms out cm the platform to
put the brake on, ahppcd and fell. As
we were still under good headway, ho
a much injured and earned off to the
i insensible. According to the
President's direction, I switched off my
**ll3, turned my engine and stood ready
40 back to 0 at a moment’s no-
Aldrich’s presence wm of so much im
partanoe that the bnaineae oonld not be
*aasaoted without bun, so all those I
had brought out, except the President
Aldrich, went back to C on the
* o’clock express train. Tbu was the
regular train which was to pass over
the road until next Monday Early in
ths evening I left the machine in charge
®y fireman, and went over to an eat
lr W-houae to see if I could not spend the
bme more pleasantly than on my en-
KAfia The hour- dragged thems<‘lv<*
,‘i T wm playing a gam* of
,<Mfou»oea the station agent wlw>n in
in estate of
*UMl»m»eut z '
” Harry,” said he, “T want yon to put
«*do4i< —at 12 o'clock. ”
A* it was nearly 11 o'clock then, and
the distance wm Mventy-five mdee. I
’bought be wm joking at first; but when
f ' f J T m
Columbia IWmfeer,
wr> got outside the door he caught me by
the am and hurried me along co fast
that I aaw he wim in earnest.
“ Harry,” said he, “if yon don't set me
down in D——- at 12 o'clock, lam a
ruined min, and thia road is a ruined
roe.!, Aldnch is dead ; but he told me
before he diet} that he had embezzled
from time io time •500,000 of our money,
and hie clerk j« to start with it on the
12 o'clock boat fnem C for Canada.
If we don't have that money on Monday
morning io make some paymenu with,
the road goto into oth-r hand* ; and ts
yon put me down in C at the right
time, eo that I save my money, you shall
have *5,000. Understand it, Harry
•s,ooo."
Os course, I understood it. I aaw now
the reason why the wages had l>een cut
down. I understood it all, and my blood
boiled. I felt that I would save the
road, if I lived, and told Roberta so.
“Bee that you do it, Harry,” he re
plied, aa be climbed up on the steps of
the coach which was coupled to my
engine.
I sprung up oh to the footboard, got
up the switch tender to help my fire
man, opened the throttle, and, just as
wo commenced moving, looked at my
watch ; it was just 11 o’clock, so that 1
had one hour to make my seventy-five
miles in. From Y to B there
were few curves on the road, but there
were several heavy grades. I was ]>er
fectly acquainted with every rod of it,
ao that I knew erectly what I had to
encounter, and when I aaw how the en
gine moved I felt very little fear for the
result. The road for the first few milew
was an air line, and so amrxitb that mv
engine flew along with soarcely a per
oeptible jar. I was so busy posting my
wait up as to the amount of wood and
■water aboard, etc., that wo danced by
the first station almost lieforo I was
aware of it, having been five minutes
out ?" ’ haying five miles uocemplishod.
" Imu are losing tune 1” yelled a voioe
from the coach. •
I looked around, and there stood
Rolverte with his watch in his hand.
I knew vary well th.'t we would hare
to increase our speed by some moans if
we carried out our plans of reaching
C by midnight, and looked anxious-
ly around to see what 1 oould do to ao
oomplish that purjioao. Blio was blow
ing oft steam fiercely at 110 pound*, ao
I turned down the valve to 200, for I
knew we should need it all to make some
of the heavy grades which lay between
us and C . It was three miles to the
next station. With the exception of a
few curves, the track was as good as the
last. Ab we darted around what com
monly seemed a rather long curve at
the station, but which at our rate of
speed was short enough, I looked at my
watch, and we had done it in two min
ute* sad a half. '
“Gaining I” I shouted back to Bob
arts, who was standing on the platform
of the coach.
" Look out for the heavy grades,” ha
replied, and went inside the car.
The next six miles rose gradually from
a level to a ten-and-a-half-feet grade,
the last of which lay between us and
the station, -ly fireman kept her full,
and now she liegan to get hot. The
furnace drtar was red, and the steam
raised continually, so thsf she kept her
speed and passed the station like a
streak of light in five minutes. Now
camo nine miles like the last, over
which she kept pace with her time, and
passed the station in seven and a half
minutes.
Here for ten miles we had a twenty
foot grade to encounter ; but the worst
of it all was, at this place we would be
obliged to stop for wood. I was just
going to speak to Bolierta alx>ut it, when
I looked around and aaw him tilling
the tender from the coach with wood
which hail l>een placed there before
starting, while he bail gone after me.
I believe wo would have gone these
ten miles with the same speed aa before,
but, through the careleeinewi of the
tireman. the fountain-valve on the left
hand side of the engine got opened, and
the water rose in the boiler eo faet aa to
run the steam down to 100 pounds be
fore I discovered where the difficulty
was. At first Roberts didn't appear to
notice the decrease of speed, and kept
at work at the wood aa for dear life.
But presently he looked up, and, seeing
(.hat the speed had decreased, he
shouted:
“ Harry, we are stopping !" am! than,
coming over to where I was. he said .
" Why, here we have been ten nnnute.
on the last ten miles, ami I believe we
will come to a deed stand if something
u not done! The speed is continually
What’s the matter ? '
f explained the cause. He was ap
parantly aatisfi-1 with my explan-bon,
Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1881.
and after having tied down the safety
valve ha climbed over the temier, ex
horting me to “ put her throne i, for
God's sake, or w» are all beggars to
gether.” . ,
Just then we passed the next station,
having taken nine minutes for eight
miles. We ware now more than half
over the road, but we had lost nmrly
ten minutes time and had only left twen
ty-seven minutes to do thirty-seven
miles in. I had shut the water off from
both my pumps * little distance back
when I ihaouvered what was the matter,
and she was now making steam finely
down a alight grade. From leas than
100, with which we started over that
teu-utile stretch, she had 200 pounds be
fore we finished it, and, aa the gauge in
dicated no higher than that and aa the
valve was tied down, I oould out tell
how much over 200 pounds sho earned ;
but she certainly carried none Isas the
remainder of the journey. And well
she might carry inch an enormoul head
of steam, for after passing over that ten
miles in eight minutes there lay ten
miles of five-feet up grade and fourteen
miles of twenty feet to the mile depress
ion between us and 0 —, and it was
now 13 minutes to 12 o'olook.
Now the engine was hot in earnest
The furnace door, smoke-arch and chim
ney were all red, while she soetned to
fly onward as if the very evil one him
self operated her machinery. Hix min
utes carried ns over that ten miles, and
we darted by the last station that had
lain between ns and 0 , Now we
had fourteen miles to go, and my time
showed fifty -three minutes past 11
o’clock. “If I live," said Ito myself.
“I will make it" And we plunged
down that twenty-foot grade with all
steam on. Persons who saw the train
rm that wild run said it was eo soon after
they heard the first sound of her ap
proach, when the strange object, which
looked as if it wasa flame of fire, darted
j by, and (hen the sound of ite traveling
died away in the distance, that they
i oould hardly convince tiiemselvre they
had ready seen anything. It seemed
Bx*A< Hie the creature of a wild dream
Tfflnrrßhber reality.
And now let mo tell you that no en
gine ever beat the time we made on
those fourteen miles. Those great
wheel., seven feet in diameter, spun
around so swift that you couldn't liegin
to count the revolutions. The engine
barely teemed to touch the track as she
flew along ; and, although the track was
aa true aa it was possible for it to be,
she swayed fearfully, and sometimes
nuule such prodigious jolts that it re
quired considerable skill for one to keep
his feet. No engine could hold to
gether if crowded to a greater speed.
Well, just aa I came to a standstill in
the depot at 0 , the big clock boomed
out 12, and ths steamlxiet was getting
her steam on. Roberta got on board in
time, and nothing to sfiarc. But he
saved the money. He found it hid away
in some old boxes, aa Aldnch had di
rected him.
itr:w arottr or Ltircoi.it.
When Lincoln was practicing in the
old Sangamon county Court House, in
the days of the old-fashioned settees, a
tall, slim lawyer, noted for wearing a
very short coat, slid along on the seat to
lie nearer the advocate addressing the
jury. A protruding nail tore the seat of
the lawyer's pantaloon* Obligixl to
follow his opponent immediately, there
wm no time to sew up the rent in the
garment. A legal wag present wrote a
■ml.scription paper: “ We, the under
'vignod, agree to pay the sums set oppo
hito to oiir several names for the purpose
of purchasing Brother Brown a new pair
of pantaloons." Several of the lawyers
put down sums ranging from 50 cents to
10 cents. The paper was presented to
Lincoln, who eat opposite the rear of
the advocate, who, bending over in ges
ticulation, made quite an exposure.
Lincoln took out his pencil and wrote
upon the paper: “I have nothing to
contribute to the end in view. ' The
lawyers roared with laughter; the Judge
asked to sea the paper, when he, too,
in turn, had to roar All this time the
unconscious victim of the fun was igno
rant of the cause of the laughter, and at
last joined in the merriment
Tmbbb ia a man m Brooklyn whs lives
so fast that hs is now absolutely older
than his father; and it is thought he
will soon ovsrtsks his grandfisthsr His
mother, a quiet, elderly lady, he hae left
behind long ago, as well aa two old
maidan aunts.
Corrnrs are now maae out of psj>er
We have seen a good many paper* which
oould thus ba made at «km use in the
world.— Philadelphia JVews. Coffins of
paper would be very appropriate to
for dead languages -(Jatahridp' Tr<h
MM.
PUCdSAffTRLKS.
Aa wrra a woman, ao with a horse
His back hair ia hie mane trouble.
Tkb Knights of the Middle Ages are
historically dark.
Evmt Custom House clerk ought to
know how to ad valorem.
This, says the Atlanta Oonttihttion,
is a good time to plant holiday adver
tisements.
Tn author of the “ Little Brown
Jug" was probably in a jugular vein,
when ho wrote sometime popular
ditty.
“Kimino your sweetheart," says a
trifling young man, “is like eating
soup with a fork ; it takes a long time
to get enough.”
A rotnio man in love is not neceeaarily
a mathematician, but ia nearly always a
sigh for her. If you can't cipher this
out we sigh for you.
"Ann seems to hinge on thia,'' re
marked the lover when he proposed to
his sweetheart while swinging on the
gate in front of her house.
Wnxtwomen fight a duel about a
woman there is almost always, some
where, a third man, who laughs heartily
at their folly, and while risking nothing
gains, perhaps, everything.
It is now claimed that Baton pre
vailed over Eve by imp-ortunity.— New
Yorjc Herald. Has it been demon
strated f— Omnmerclal Bulletin. Yea,
it is the latest devil-epment.— Earl
Marble.
A Jsossr Cirr man in the act of ad
ministering a hearty kick to his wife
slipped and fell ao heavily as to fracture
his leg in two places. Wtfb-beaters, see
that your feet are well braced before
beginning work.
Bi'bakino of Mr. Forbes' lecture on
“ Kings I Have Met," a Western paper
says that some day ho will come across
three kings and a pair of sevens, and
then ho will learn something about the
really great resources of this country.
Miss Huaxa M Russaix, editor of the
Duluth Weekly, says : “ Whan things
go to D K how 0 D they become." The
most C D thing we know of this sassoa
is the Q cumber. Beware of it, Busis,
or it will W up. Watch for it, wait for
it, — PfA-k'» Sun.
Art English magazine discourses on
“Cheap Girl*” It says ; "No young
man, not even the worst, wants any.
thing to do with a cheap young lady.”
This is a mistake. No matter how cheap
a girl may be, her young man always
thinks she is a “ little dear.”
“ Put out your tongue a little fur
ther,” said a doctor to a fair invalid. “A
little further, if you please.” “Why,
doctor, do you think a woman's tongue
baa no end ?" said the gentle sufferer.
"An end, perhaps, madam,” replied ths
physician, " but no cessation.”
Tub bashful young man who asked a
tally on the beach if he " could see her
home,” was much surprised to hear her
reply ‘‘ that he could go up and sea it if
bo wanted to, but she didn't think her
a POLITK PKhPLK.
The city of Lucknow, India, is re
nowned for the politeness of its people,
exceeding, it would seem, that of the
French, who are generally regarded as
the politest people in the world. A cor
respondent, writing from the spot, gives
a ludicrous illustration of the extent to
which the natives carry their ideas of
courtesy. Two native gentlemen, on
thsir way to the railway station, acci
dentally fell into a ditch. One would
snpjKwe that both would have been on
their feet in a twinkling ; but no, the
law of pohteueas interfered, and one
said to the other : “ When your Honor
rises then I may get up.” “No, your
Honor should get up first," replied the
other “ Never , how oould I take
precedence of your Honor ?" and thus
the contest went on for an hour, it la
firi, tteoauae neither gentleman would
ooneent to violate the laws of good
breeding
ArtMICtriTVMtL ntT*LU9BltC*.
The potato bug must hide his dimin
ished head before the approach of th»>
Cnooeru Asparagi. This is his swell
name. When he is at boms tn hu ahirt
sleeves be allows folks to call him aspar
agus beetle. He is warranted to with
stand the ravages of heat aad odd, rain,
frost and snow, and attends to bn sin see
with unfailing regularity aad on easy
terms to large and small purchasers. Hs
comes dressed in black, red and yellow,
like a foreign prince M eiroaaoiowii, and
tauons oa Pano green aad puces of al!
kinds
A ZtTMM OT CUtItCTtL
A few of the broad distinctions of
physiognomy depend on the forms ot
ths features, but all its nicer ahadre
have far more to do with expressions ;
aad m this, indeed, the real character is
often scan where the conformation of
the features seems to contradict it.
There are some general and well-known
rules for the determination of phyatog
nomical character, as far as it has to do
with the shapes of the features; the
aquiline nose and eye, for ins tan n. Ixv.
long to the heroic class; thick lips to
the sensual, aad thin to the saltish ; yet
all these may be liable to many excep
tions—the first certainly are; for Nel
son, Wolfe, Turenne, and many other
heroes had nothing of the eagle physiog
nomy. It ia natural to associate beauty
with goodness, and ugliness with wiok
edneea; and children generally do thia.
But an acquaintance with the world
soon shows ua that bad and selfish
hearts may be concealed under tho
handsomest features, and the highest
virtues hidden under the homeliest;
and that goodness may even exiat with
conformations of face absolutely ugly.
We then begin to look for the character
in ths expression rather than in the
forms of the features, and to distinguish
assumed expressions from natural ones ;
and so we go on, aad, aa we grow older,
become better physiognomiate, though
we never arrive at the certainty of judg
ment which seems not to be intended
wo ever should.— Robert Lettie.
Tux following advertisements are tak
en from a Ban Francisco uowsjisper •
“The gentleman who eat down on a
cream pie in a Market atreet car is known
to tho lady who had just purchased it,
and, even though he may have no regard
for the hungry orphans for whom it wiu<
destined, he is urged at once to remit
•1.50 and tho expense of this advertise
merit to tho business office of this paper,
to save tho exposure which will follow
his disgusting conduct” Right under
neath it this Janus of a journal evidently
accepts the money of tho other side, aa
tho subjoined will testify : “If tho
slightly intoxicated lady who allowed a
gwitleman to spoil a *lO pair of beaver
pants by placing a lot of slush wrapped
up in paper on tho seat ho was about to
occupy does not immediately remit that
amount to tho oars of A. 8., at thia of
fice, a full account of tho affair will
shortly be given to tho pveea. ”
Maiw an old dog han more cur-age
than the average man.
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NUMBER 39.
Hir ruriru.
The writer of this communication has
been a sufferer from hay fever periodi
cally for the past twelve years—during
half of which jienod she oould get no
autiafactory relief. The intolerable itch
ing of the eyelids and almost constant
suceziug which charecteriaee tho com
plaint in ite worst form she had to en
dure until six years ago, when the fol
lowing remedy was brought to her no
tice in the colutuns of a newspaper:
Into a fuur-ounre wide-mouth bottle,
half fili<*d with cotton, and having a
close stopper, put the following mixt
ure : 2| drachma carbolic acid, •
dnu-hins aqna ammonia (specific gravity
0.901), 5 drachms distilled Water, 7|
drachms alcohol. Inhale through the
nostrils. Thia mixture, being of a vola
tile nature, must be kept as much m
|xMsible from cxjKMuro in order to pre
serve its strength and prevent too deep
discoloration. It does not purport to be
a ajw-cific, for that has not yet been dis
covered, but it has proved iieelf a ready
relief in tho case of tho writer and of
many who have suffered in the sams
way.—-Yew Fork .Stria
■xxmfxmo or mmutn a took
A little leas than three years ago—ia
Heptembcr, 1878— the entire issue of
Louisville and Nashville stock was
worti., at current prices, •3,041,100 ; a
day or two ago, also at current priewe. it
would have taken •19,190,000, and this
after a stock dividend of 100 per cent.
Rock Island, one of the steadiest of
stocks, amid have been bought up en
tire for •39,375,000 in 1878 1 now it
would take •00,742,000 to buy the out
standing stock. New Jeiaey Central,
at the same time in 1878—and it wan not
then at its lowest point—would have
cost ffZ.TTB.SOO; to-day, with a heavier
debt before it and very little increase tn
property, •18,960,000 would be needed
to buy it. Bimilar instances might be
given without number, but these must
suffice now. It will teas some pretty
clone thinking to find out where all ths
difference comes in. Ness Fork
Utaphio.
A I.ADT tells the Washington Repub
lican something which ought to have
remained a secret with her sex. It is
that a woman, in choosing a lover, con
siders a good deal more how the man
will be regarded by other woman than
whether aha loves him horeelf.
A oxtboxb in New York, ft ia said, is
able to make almost all the dishes of a
complete bill of taro from a freak-killed
